Announcing that the DS handheld has now sold over 100 million units worldwide, Nintendo also reveal that some seven games have now passed the 10 million sales milestone.
List...
- Nintendogs
- New Super Mario Bros
- Brain Age
- Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
- Mario Kart DS
- Brain Age 2
- Animal Crossing: Wild World
Apparently, a whopping 83 games have now also passed one million in sales, a testament to the phenomenon the DS has undoubtedly become.
A new model of the system - the DSi - is now available in Japan, and it will be heading to Europe and North America soon.
Nintendo DS sales have topped a whopping 100m units worldwide, the videogames giant has claimed.
The figure’s a combination of sales for all the DS variants: the original DS, released back in November 2004, the DS Lite, which appeared in 2006, and the DSi - which was only launched into Japan in November last year and won’t arrive in the UK until next month.
"Consumers have shown their love for Nintendo DS - 100m times over," gushed Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime.
By comparison, Sony said last month that - as of late January - it had shifted 50m PlayStation Portables worldwide. The first PSP launched in Japan during December 2004, a month after the DS.
But DS sales still have some way to go before they overtake those of another classic Nintendo handheld - the Game Boy. It’s sold just under 120m units worldwide, but has had a significant head start on the DS, of course - Nintendo released the original Game Boy back in 1989.
Source includes: Play.tm